# Rules for Construction Workers at Schools. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-for-construction-workers-at-schools/370135 "2006-08-25T02:57:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-for-construction-workers-at-schools/370135/21 "2006-08-26T11:01:02Z")
If I’m recalling the Shalespearean use of “nunnery”, it refers to a brothel, does it not? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-for-construction-workers-at-schools/370135/22 "2006-08-26T17:53:43Z")
My father is an elementary school principal, and he once told me he had to reign in a construction worker who kept “forgetting” about the no smoking rule. He also insisted on wearing clothing with Confederate flag emblems (the school is predominately hispanic and black). I don’t think my father could keep him from wearing those clothes, but he did tell the construction worker that he wished he wouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-for-construction-workers-at-schools/370135/23 "2006-08-26T19:36:42Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] You guys should see my brother’s crew when the nuns are around. The construction site is right next to a nunnery. It’s one of those orders where they almost never leave the place, only to run errands or go see the doctor. I’ve been in the nunnery and it’s really well built, even with the windows open you can barely hear anything from outside (the architect got some input from a specialist in Sound Physics about where to put columns and funny angles, to diminish sound transmission). Most of the time, the guys swear in Spanish, Arabic, French, English, a dozen African languages, Russian, Romanian… The minute a nun is sighted in the garden or walking out the street, or when people leave Mass, they all turn into little angels. Once at lunch my brother asked one of the Moors about this (hey, they aren’t “his” nuns!) and the guy answered that without Caritas’ help he wouldn’t have been able to get his legal papers all straightened out and that it had been the nuns from a different convent in town who found him someone who’d be willing to rent a flat to an immigrant, so they’re about the last people in the world he’d want to offend, ever. He’d been pretty nervous about going to see the nuns when the guy who opened the first Muslim butcher’s shop took him there, but they’d been real nice, yes sir. [/QUOTE] [hijack]An old nun who was living in a convent next to a Brooklyn construction site noticed the coarse language of the workers and decided to spend some time with them to correct their ways. She decided she would take her lunch sit with the workers and talk with them. She put her sandwich in a brown bag and walked over to the spot where the men were eating. She walked up to the group and with a big smile said: “Do you men know Jesus Christ?” They shook their heads and looked at each other. One of the workers looked up into the steelwork and yelled “Anybody up there know Jesus Christ?” One of the steelworkers asked why. The worker yelled “His wife is here with his lunch.” [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-for-construction-workers-at-schools/370135/24 "2006-08-27T00:53:24Z")
[QUOTE=cerberus] If I’m recalling the Shalespearean use of “nunnery”, it refers to a brothel, does it not? [/QUOTE] Read this. Also, is your “k” key broken? 😃 [Convent/Brothel](http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19981016) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rules-for-construction-workers-at-schools/370135.md?page=1)